I love my cm9 rooted kindle fire and it has apps for everything you need but I hate on screen keyboards. You may want to find one with a real keyboard. --j Senjf for,m my kindle fire cm9 On Feb 16, 2012 1:50 PM, "Jeremy MountainJohnson" < jeremy.mountainjohnson at gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for all the response! Perhaps an Andriod rooted device is the > way to go. I had looked at the Kindle Fire, but didn't see much of a > calendar option- do these root well into an Android OS (reliable after > rooting)? > > iDevices have some neat features (iTouch, iPad), but the cost is a bit > much. I noticed some of the old Palm's dropped in price recently, but > for the same price there is much better technology. > > Regarding the distraction I speak of- I get annoyed with people who > are glued to their phones in and out of social situations, and that is > what I was becoming with the Pre. It also had this side effect of > making my wife nag more. Constantly checking and getting e-mail, > status updates, directions and maps, etc. I know these can be turned > off, but having your phone bundled with all that technology in one > unit was too much for me :) Just a personal preference, call me old > fashioned, but I want the phone to be just the phone, and my organizer > to be mostly an organizer. Hopefully that makes sense. > > -- > Jeremy MountainJohnson > Jeremy.MountainJohnson at gmail.com > > > > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Yaron <tclug at freakzilla.com> wrote: > > On Thu, 16 Feb 2012, Jeremy MountainJohnson wrote: > > > >> I tried a similar smart phone a couple years back [...] and found it to > be > >> [...] a big distraction > > > > > > Can you explain what you mean by "a big distraction"? I understand all > the > > other concerns and can think of ways to work around them. For price you > can > > get an older, used device, and for monthly bills, well, you get a > non-phone > > or just don't sign up with a carrier. But distraction is a lot broader > and > > might be harder to solve. > > > > Is it the fact that current devices have a ton of apps? Because you're > not > > required to install any of them. > > > > > > > > > > -Yaron > > > > -- > > > > _______________________________________________ > > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20120216/bb2a54c7/attachment.html>